On Wednesday 01 June 2005 03:28 am, Matt Phillips wrote: > If you are truly paranoid use DBAN, which is short for Darin's Boot and > Nuke. IMO it is the best disk wiping tool out there. It gives you a > couple different wiping methods to choose from, including the one used > by the US DoD. You can also specify how many passes it makes.
I'm sick of people passing on this US DoD standard as a fact. The true US DoD standard states that it DOES NOT make the drive safe for reuse unless it will be used to store data of equal or greater security rating. If the drive is no longer useful, after running this "wipe" the drive platters are destroyed. > According to the website, DBAN is used by the US Dept of Energy and the > National Nuclear Security Administration, which ain't bad. It may be, before the drives are reused internally for an equally or more secure project. Or just before the get thrown into the incinerator. Tim Donahue
